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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: manufacture many different things out of the same materials. She
may have so wrought with that grain of mineral, that she may have
formed it into part of a precious stone, and men may dig it out of
the rock, or pick it up in the river-bed, and polish it, and set
it, and wear it. Think of that--that in the jewels which your
mother or your sisters wear, or in your father's signet ring,
there may be atoms which were part of a live plant, or a live
animal, millions of years ago, and may be parts of a live plant or
a live animal millions of years hence.
Think over again, and learn by heart, the links of this endless
chain of change: Fire turned into Stone--Stone into Soil--Soil
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